The completely impossible - possible List!

I have started a new Website a few weeks back with a nice new Blog attached to it. The Website is titled "In and around Las Vegas" and pretty much focuses on Events, Concerts, Fairs, Job market, outdoors tips etc in and around the greater Las Vegas Area which are other FREE ADMISSION or extremely cheap. I also decided to give small business and freelancers, Artists in the local area a chance to showcase them-selves on my Blog and Website. Place an AD which will stay up more then a day or two at rediculesly low prices. But not only that, I started going to some of those Festivals, taking photos and reviewing them for my Readers. If and when I would find a particularly "nice" Vendor I would take photos and ask them for their Business Card, Website Address etc so I could simply link to them.

That is considered free Traffic you know and a little tip up for them. So why post about that in the impossible Blog? Because believe or not, being nice and trying to help people these days can be almost impossible.

Out of 30 People I made this offer to only 5 accepted. Of course they always asked me what it was for and I am more then honest in explaining. Now consider that I am not asking them for anything other then the permission of taking 1 or 2 Photos of themselves and their Booth and their Business Card so I have the Webaddress and contact information. I was honest enough in telling them that my Website and Blog was still fairly new, but growing quickly.

Surprisingly a larger number asked was actually kind of rude in their answers.
In the cases of the 5 who accepted I was prompt about "plucking" their business for them within the content of my Blog Post. This was not going to turn into a spam or scam blog. I want to provide valuable information to my Readers. In a couple of Cases I got leads and two agreed to give me a short interview at another time when they were not busy so I could showcase them a bit further.

Surprise, suprise. When I contacted them for follow up they were shocked. Seems I am not the only one that has had some more then unpleasant interactions with other "businesses".

That is another thing that is really going down the drain. Seems that when You ask people to follow up with y ou, you are waiting for hell to freeze over. So right now I am setting, making a living while doing something good for others under..impossible dream. Boy I hope I can shift it over soon!